[PDF.87wp] Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism

Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism

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 | #2228744 in Books |  2009-02-09 |  2009-02-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.88 x6.00l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Challenging and Delightful|By Dae An|This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the true origins of Zen Buddhism. With a scholar's attention to detail and a revolutionary's urge to dismantle sacred cows, Cole takes on the traditional romantic view of the birth of Zen. He makes the case that the genealogies of transmission which are so sacred to Zen, were a self-consiou| ||| "It is rare to review a book that successfully overturns many of the assumptions| held in an area of study. This book achieves this revolution for Chan studies and| deserves to be read closely by all researchers in the field.

This book offers a provocative rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). Working from a history-of-religions point of view that asks how and why certain literary tropes were chosen to depict the essence of the Buddhist tradition to Chinese readers, this analysis focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies—the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharm...

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